四明尊者教行錄 4.55

4.55

答：於諸方面各那由他諸小國土方名大千。經云大千等微塵數，豈不該於十萬？如一微塵尚有十方分，況大千耶？若言盡十方界皆抹為塵，則方與經文相違也。

Answer: It is only when there are nayutas of small lands in each of the various directions that it is called a great-thousand [world]. When the sūtra speaks of 'dust particles of a great-thousand, etc.', how could it not encompass a hundred thousand? If a single particle of dust still possesses divisions in the ten directions, how much more so a great-thousand world? If one were to say that the entire realms of the ten directions were all reduced to dust, only then would it contradict the sūtra text.